We get this question all the time: How can I engage more deeply in my reading beyond asking basic questions and interpreting the text/author? I want to think deeply about the text in front of me, remember more than just the main themes and ideas, and be able to fully formulate my thoughts on books,
With July coming hot, literally (go away, heat waves!) and figuratively, a bunch of great book clubs have announced what they’ll be reading and discussing this month. The focus of these book clubs is unique, which means they offer a wide variety of selections. Plus, all of these book clubs are virtual in some way,
Many people dream of long summer reads, but to actually dig into the books, you have to steal any possible moment.
People are reading less books. The Atlantic’s Rose Horowitz discusses what a post-literate world might look like.
Whether you’re a casual mystery reader or a thriller fan, there’s something for you in July’s new releases. And if, like me, you enjoy the entire crime genre series, you will enjoy a wealth of new mysteries and adventures. It features a con story set in 1940s Mexico, a heist for one last job, a
Jez Cajiao & Aethon: The Vault – The Best in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror! Dark fantasy meets grimdark dungeon core litrpg! An epic dungeon adventure. An event after the apocalypse. In all the games Matt has played, dungeons are places to raid and conquer, but when power is taken from the world, and the
Oli, Guardian reader i just finished reading Vimmy Road Boys By Sufiyan Salam. Set in Manchester’s Curry Mile, a brilliant combination of violence and vulnerability, I loved this book. I completely connected with the three main boys, and I loved the changes in perspective of the different characters throughout the book. I completely cried at
When I was a child, the public library in my small Alabama town, a one-story frame building that had once been a train depot, was off-limits to me. This was the early 1960s, more than a decade before schools were integrated and “public” buildings became accessible to all. As black children, my siblings and I
“Our tongues are trying to tie a knot,” writes Serena Chopra in her simultaneously tender and precise new collection. a list of future mercies. When she writes, later, “I see this intimacy through my teeth,” I believe her. Throughout, Chopra provides us with snippets of family stories, myths, patient circuits of ritual – the means